How we work

How the Taraki blog is written: where facts come from, how tools are tested, how AI is used in drafting, and how to report a mistake.

Every figure has a source and a date

Prices, percentages, release dates and benchmark results come from the organisation that published them — the vendor's own pricing page or changelog, the survey's own results, the advisory database, the paper. Each article lists its sources at the end with the date we last checked them, and every chart names the source its numbers came from. If a fact can't be traced to a primary source, it isn't stated.

We read forums, Hacker News and social posts to learn what developers are struggling with, but we don't treat them as evidence for a number. We don't use "statistics" roundup sites; they disagree with each other and rarely say where a figure came from.

Tools are tested, not summarised

Platform reviews are based on building the same small reference app on each platform and recording what happened: how long it took to get something working, what broke, what the security defaults were, whether the code can leave the platform, and what it costs after the free tier. The criteria are published with each review so you can weigh them differently.

Until a tool's hands-on review is published, comparisons that include it are based on each vendor's own documentation and pricing pages.

How AI is used here

Articles are written under Theo Pelingan's name, drafted with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, and checked against the sources listed on each page. That creates a conflict of interest worth stating plainly: Anthropic also makes Claude Code, one of the tools we cover. It is held to the same published criteria as every other tool, and where it falls short, we say so.

The site's build enforces some of this automatically: a chart without a source, an article without sources, or a price that hasn't been re-checked recently fails the build and doesn't publish.

Nothing here is sponsored

There are no sponsored posts and no affiliate links on this blog. If that ever changes, the affected page will say so at the top.

Corrections

Found something wrong or out of date? Email hello@taraki.dev with the page and what's wrong. Corrected articles show an "Updated" date.

Who's behind this

Taraki is an independent software studio in the Philippines that builds and runs production web, mobile and serverless cloud products. Read about the studio.